The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 March 1909 — Page 6

Memories of the War

Queer Hiding Place. In the spring 0f1864 an army paymaster named Booth had in his employ as clerk a young man named Theodore Cushman, says a writer in the Detroit Free Press, a good-looking, intelligent fellow, whose parents lived • in a small town in Ohio. Booth had taken the young man on the recommendation of a Congressman, and was much pleased with him. About the middle of May, when Cushman had been employed about six weeks, he suddenly disappeared, and with him went the sum of $13,000, taken from the paymaster’s safe. His getting the money was a very bold thing. The safe stood open, and in the office sat the paymaster and a friend, and there were two other clerks besides Cushman. The young man put on his hat and coat to go out. placed the package of money in .his pocket unseen, and had two hours start when it was missed. When I was placed on the case I soon learned that Cushman, honest and respectable as he appeared to his friends, was really the consort of many,bad people. He dismk and gain—- , bled, and was a general favorite with several female adventurers. Indeed, I even discovered that he had left Washington in the company of a woman named Bell Grover. He must have been planning a raid on the paymaster’s safe, and felt reasonably sure of making a, haul, for the woman was. packed up ready to Jgave, and both were on their way to Baltimore withing an hour from the time that the money was taken. They had two days the start of me, but I traced them to Philadelphia, from there to Trenton, from Trenjpn to jersey City, and they crossed to New York Only two hours ahead of me. In Philadelphia Cushman bought the woman SBOO worth of diamond's. I had an idea that they would plan to take a steamer for Europe, and I had to telegraph to Washington for help in the case. We watched the ship offices, overhauled the hotels, and five days slipped away and we had not been able to pick up the trail again. It was a question whether they had not left the city almost as soon as they had entered it. After the first day there were four of us on the case directwhile the police k were rendering us all the assistance possible. We had none of us met Cushman or the woman face to face, nor did we have their photographs. We were trailing them from descrip- • tioifs, and faulty ones at that. Towards night on the afternoon of the fifth day 1 was crossing Union Square when I encountered a young fellow whom I at once spotted for Cushman. He had shaved off his mustache, changed his style of collar and put on a new suit of clothes, but I had a feeling- that he was the man I wanted. I turned and followed him, and after a bit he looked about him in such away as to prove that he was a criminal of some sort. He went to a hotel and wrote a letter and inclosed a SSO bill in it. From there he went to a hardware store and bought a revolver. Then he started out like one going home, and I followed him to a boarding house on Lexington avenue. Ten minutes after Cushman entered the house I rang the bell, and it did not take over five more to explain my errand to the landlady. She volunteered to lead-me to Cushman’s room, which was up two flights, but she at the same time informed me that Mrs. Cushman had left the house a few minutes before his arrival. When Iknocked on the door I heard some one moving inside, but no answer was returned to my summons.' I waited five minutes and then broke the door in, but Cushnian was nowhere to be found. It was an elegantly furnished room, and the pair had gone straight to the house from the foot of Debrosses, street. I looked out of the various windows, under ihe bed and behind the sofa, but Cushman was not to be found. He could not have descended to the ground, and I made up my mind that when he came upstairs he entered some other room, although I thought. I heard him move about after I knocked. I was about to leave the room to make a search of the house when I heard a great sputtering and sneezing. and the wooden mantel was pushed back and Cushman came out of the fireplace. It was a mock fire-grate, but so nic<sy arranged that I was deceived. His quarters were terribly cramped and the time and dust had filled his eyes and set him to sneezing. He was a terribly chagrined and crestfallen over his capture, but a still worse thing was in store for him. The woman for whom he had ruined himself had been entrusted to carry the bulk of the “swag,” and she had taken advantage of his absence to run away with it. We did our best to find her, but she got away to Europe with at least SIO,OOO of the stolen money. Cushman was taken to Washington, tried for the robbery and got a tenyear sentence, not more than half of which had been served when he died. Family Politics. The daily happenings of a Southern family at the close of the Civil War ire graphically described by Eliza F. ■ - ’ ■ ■ ' '

Andrews In “The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl.” She tells of amusing and pathetic occurrences, and refers to her father’s unfailing loyalty to the Union. The news this evening is, she writes, in May, 1865, that we have all got to take the oath of allegiance to the Union ! before getting married. This horrid i law caused much talk in our rebellious circle, and the gentlemen laughed very much when Cora said: “Talk about dying for your country, but what is that to being an. old maid for it?” Maria Irvin said something to-night which made me feel very uncomfortable. I was sitting across the room from her, and she told me, loud enough for everybody to hear, that the first evening the Yankees arrived in town they were heard to say that they knew all about Judge Andrews; he was a good Union man, and they liked him. At my side was Major White, an exile from Maryland, whose poor downtrodden State has suffered so much, and I thought it was real spiteful in her to be throwing up father’s politics to me there; so I flew up and told her that if my father was a Union man he had more sons in the Confederate army than hers had, and that he didn’t wait till the war was over, like so many other people I knew, to express his Union sentiments. Father's politics distress me, but nobody shall say a word against him where 1 am. Pdor, dear old father! Everything he said in the beginning has come true, juit as he said it would. The First Charge of the 3<>th Illinois The troops who were assigned to the southwest in the early days of the war, remember what a dilapidated, ‘.‘one-horse town” the terminus of the railroad was in 1861. Every shanty was a whisky shop from whence proceeded qvery form 1 of loathsomt disease and death to those who patronized the piapes. On Colonel Grensel, of the Thirty-sixth Illinois Regiment, devolved the command of the post. The first measure inaugurated by him, and the first expedition in which the Thirty-sixth participated was a demon stration against the “whisky dens.” The Colonel headed the charge in person, seized all the liquor that could be found, emptying it into the streets. The natives who witnessed this onslaught of the Yankee crusaders on their (to them) elixir of life, thought we’uns were very wasteful. Out of this chaos and disorder the colonel soon brought cleanliness and order. War, with its wonder-working power, brought a great change in the appearance ot this sleepy town. Whitewalled canvas villages sprang up all around the hill-sides; sentinels paced up and down its once quiet walks; army wagons, Soldiers, mounted officers, orderlies hurrying from camp tc camp, gave the place an air of business activity quite in contrast with the primitive-days of the town. The population was largely made up of apple women, mustang ponies, fugitives from the outskirts of civilization, mules, .contraband negroes, with now and then a secessionist not smart enough to run away, and too worthless to. be hung. Such was Rolla as we found it. Any one visaing that part of Missouri, and Rolla in particu-/ lar, please make a note of the. then and now contrast. Another institution, somewhat aboriginal, and yet peculiarly Missourian, was the pie and cake venders, generally skinny, snuff-rubbing, to-bacco-chewing bld women, who flocked , from the country with “buckskin” or “leather apron” compositions called pies and gingerbread, made from sorghum, flour and bacon grease (the color suggested tar). The venders of these villainous articles! would hang about the cbnfines of ’the camp, hawking their wares with . voices as musical and .feminine as/Tibtse fiddles. It was absolutely marvelous to see the quantities which an average “thir-ty-sixer” could hold, and how it was a continual source of wonder how men could endure the surfeit of leather and sorghum, beans and “sow-belly” with which they tormented their digestive. organs 3 and survive. It could only be accounted for on the theory.that with the change from civil to military life their stomaqhs. like their costumes, had undergone a- wonderful transformation. [ierhaps were lined with gutta percha and riveted to a diaphragm of boiler iron. Yet they lived; and, like Joshua of old, waxed fat. The demand for this indigestible native pastry was occasioned by the poor quality of the rations at that time issued to the troops. The ; boys of '6l well remember some bf the early issues of.the old, round, wormy, mouldy, hard bread, with| “B. C.” marked on the barrels. When soaked in coffee more or less worms would wiggle to the surface or be found among the dregs. The members of the band at one time had Issued to them a barrel of “tack” infinitely worse than any that had hitherto been received. After a hasty council they/ determined to give It a military burial. Headed by the leader, the whole burial corps of the regiment marched in solemn procession to a spot situated outside the camp, and the rites of sepulchre were gone through with. Dutch Charley, the bass drummer. suggested that an epitaph be written upon the head-board. On being asked what it should be, he replied: “Here lies von mans; his name’s hard pred; . He schmels sho pad dot he iah deat; Sthranger, stheps lightly o’er disch sot. Or de worms vill eat you ups, mein Got.” Press on! If fortune play thee fa Ist to-day, tto-morow she’ll be true. — Park Benjamin.

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CHAPTER XlV.—(Continued.) That afternoon Maude strolled out into the grounds. She wandered up one of the, grassy vistas (through the sea of laurels, until she arrived at' a pond—a pond all covered with great large-leaved water lilies; and by the edge of that pond Maude sat down, and, resting her head on her hand, began to think. It was one of those warm sunshiny days we are occasionally blessed with in April. She thought very sadly of the life before her. Os course it was her duty to save Glinn to her parents. Why was duty always made so hard in this world? Ah! it was cruel of Gren to tell her he loved her just when they were to separate forever. Maude slept—she dfeafnt; and she pictured to herself that she. was drowning in some big lake; she was'going down —down ever so far, and suddenly she clasped a spar of some kind, and felt that she was saved. Then a big brown man with fierce red eyes, threatened her and struck at her, and just as she was about to let go, the big brown man suddenly vanished, and Grenville Rose stood in his place, caught her by the hand, and drew her to him. She fell into his arms; and as he bent over he kissed her. Maude sat up, and turned over her dream in her mind. It cheered her. She thought it foretold the triumph of Gren over Pearman, and everything all light and sunshine for the future. But Sam Pearman, in the meanwhile, loses no time in prosecuting his suit. Diffidence is not one of his failings, and in such mock courtship as this there is little fear of the result. Before- a week had gone by he was formally engaged to Maude Denison, and the discussion of when the wedding shall take place is preeminent between the high contracting parties. Maude listens, and. assents to everything in a .quiet, listless way. She treats her betrothed with calm ’ courtesy, but avoids all occasion of being left alone with him. So far, Sam Pearman can boast of receiving but scant favors from the hands of his bride-elect. Her cheek is. as yet innocent of his caresses, and a warm pressure of the hand the extent of his achievements. No news—not a sign of Grenville Rose; and wearily Maude commenced going through all the ordeal of preparing the trousseau. They were to be married the first week in May., , ' But one morning a groom came over ih hot haste from Mannersley with a few lines for the squire from Sam Pearman, to say that his father was dead. The son had told them a day or two before that the old man was ailing, but had had no idea that there was much the matter. Tliree or four days’ illness, then inflammation set in, and old, lawyer Pearman was gone to his rest. That ancient fisher would never angle more,-and Samuel, his son, reigned in his stead. “Put off the wedding, Nell, for a month or two. of course,” said the squire, as he broke the news to his wife. “Otherwise it’s perhaps for the best. I can’t pretend to feel any intense grief about old Pearman, and his departure leaves Sam and Maude all free to enter upon Mannersley at once.” Mrs. Denison showed a wisdom on the occasion seldom evinced. She said nothing, for the simple reason she had nothing to say. As for Sam Pearman, he bore his bereavement with tolerable composure. “Sorry for the old father/’ he muttered, “He was a clever man, every bit of him. He could play with these swells, and manage ’em in away nobody else I ever saw could. He was very good to me, too, always. I shall nevef- have the head he had if I live a hundred years. Lucky I don’t want it.” Then he fell into a brown study. “Yes, put my marriage off a bit —hum! How lucky Coriander is entered in my name for the Two Thousand, and not his. Fancy his being disqualified, after the trial of last week!” CHAPTER XV. Grenville Rose, to speak metaphoricalhas been paddling his skiff through troubled waters of late. Maude’s short wobegone little note of dismissal, and his aunt’s indignant letter, were far from pleasant ’ reading to a man as much entangled as he was in the.love-god’s meshes. He sat and sulked—he sat and thought. They all ended in the same conclusion, that Pearman would marry his darling Maude, and that he was, and ever should be, utterly miserable. Anathematizing, with an impartiality quite beautiful to witness, everything and everybody, Mr. Rose once more enters his sitting room in pursuit of breakfast. He unfolds the Times. Again, as a preliminary, does he ascertain the extreme firmness of Coriander in the betting quotations for the Two Thousand. Not that Silky Dallison’s feed at Greenwich is any object to him now—he is too miserable to enter into such things;* but-he might as well read about that as anything else. Why does the supplement, which he never dreams of looking at, tumble so persistently across his plate? “Let’s have a look at the second column,” he mutters, “and see whether ‘X Y Z’s’ family are still in tribulation about his absence; or whether ‘Pollaky’ is offering his usual hundred for an absconded young lady, aged nineteen, good-looking, and with a rose in her bonnet —last seen etc. ‘Births’ —hum! don’t see much good in them. There once myself, I suppose; nice unlucky beggar’s advent to put in the papers. ‘Marriages!’ Suppose I shall see hers before many weeks are ovr. ‘Deaths!’—l feel that’s more in my line just now. I hope there’s a good lot of ’em. How I should like to add one or two to the column—more particularly one. Halloa! what’s this? ‘At Mannersley, after a very few days’ illness, in the sev-enty-second year of his age, Samuel Pearman, Esq.’ Wish it had been his son!” muttered Grenville; and then he sat down to think whether this could by any possibility influence his prospects in any way. It* ia hard ta believe that there ia no

such thing as destinq. It is almost ludicrous at times to think what a trivial incident ‘has turned, the whole current of our lives. There is a large and wellknown speculator on the barf at this time —a man. doubtless, worth many ingots and much stock and security—whose money-making career dates from the presentation of a case of razors, according to popular report. Who can say? Many such an instance might be quoted. Grenville Rose’s life turned on reading the supplement of the Times, it be said by accident,, that particular morning. I fancy no human being ever saw that generally light-hearted barrister thinking so hard as he was upon this occasion. He has won many a good cause since, but often laughs and says, “that was the biggest he was ever engaged in; and no solicitor to draw up the brief, mind.” “Ah!” he said at last, “I can almost swear I saw it. I recollect laughing over it. at the time, and thinking what a quaint, queer old deed it was. Suppose I’m right—-I wonder how it would affect things? I must go over and talk to Dallison a bit.” And while Grenville Rose crosses the Temple Gardens, let me say a few words about George Dallison. He a comes athwart the loves of Grenville and Maude but for a few days. Yet he is destined to be the master of the situation of that eventful period. George Dallison is a barrister some two or three years senior to Rose. He has a fair income of his Own, and has betaken himself to the elucidation of the mysteries of the turf. Rather below the middle height, with large liquid hazel eyes, a slight almost effeminate figure, feet and hands that would be no disgrace to a woman, and a soft voice, nothing could be more deceptive in appearance than Silky Dallison. His low, languid tones and caressing manner had earned him that sobriquet at college. It had -stuck to him ever since. Destitute of whisker, a slight soft brown moustache just shading his upper lip; lithe, supple, 8 almost girlish in appearance——such was George Dallison, Few men of his age rode straighter and steadier over a country than he; while Tattersall’s had arrived at the conclusion that, though he might look young, nobody threw his money away much less than Silky Dallison. When, in his languid manner, he was willing to take a thousand to thirty about any horse’s chance, it had a chance- —a good deal* more than, as a rule, can be predicated of the animals about which such very long odds are to be obtained. “Come in,” was the response to Rose’s sharp knock, and Dallison was discovered placidly consuming a French navel in the easiest of armchairs. No greater rite perhaps ever existed; yet on Newmarket Heath, he would wait the day through wind and sleet; to back the “good thing,” he had journeyed from London expressly for, and return to town without a murmur, if such had turned out the delusive phantom too usual on such occasions. “Oh, Grenville, charmed to see you! Take a chair and talk. It’s not a bad novel,” he observed, as he threw the yellow colored volume on the table; “but I’ve had more than enough of it, and myself for the present. News! Ah, Gren, if you have any. unfold thy short, and. I trust, moving- tale.” “Thanks! I want to talk to you a bit on business —reason I’m here,” said Rose. “Shouldn’t come to you on a point of law, ‘Silky,’, but'this happens to be a bit of racing.” “You racing! What do you mean?” “Have you seen old Pearman’s death in the paper?” “Yes,” rejoined Dallison. “You’re thinking of Coriander—makes no difference, you know—horse entered in th* son’s name.” “Suppose, Silky, I could show you that that horse couldn't start without my consent, or something like it?” “Come, old fellow, no gammon. I'm on him for the Derby, and am only wailing to hedge my money till he’s won the Two Thousand.” “Look here, Dallison; I know nothing about the turf, and have come to you to manage a great game between young Pearman and myself. Will you do so? Os course you can take care of yourself in the transaction. I can tell you nothing for certain as yet. Will you manage tie turf part of the business while I work the legal machinery? As my idea of the ease' stands at present, I tell you fairly, I think Coriander's starting for the Guineas will be at the option of myself and clients; but I may be mistaken.” “Do you advise me to hedge now,' then?” said Silky Dallison. “Certainly not. I know nothing about the turf, but if I am right in my conjeh‘ture, the management of Coriander in the market will be, for the benefit of my clients, in your hands before a few days are over. Will you say nothing till I see you again, and give you, as I hope, the reasons why?”■. “You say I’m to be your agent if it is as you think it. I’ll ask no questions; but as you know nothing about that great elaborate system of gambling, yclept racing—if. as you think, you’ve any control over Coriander, don’t Whisper/it to your carpet-bag till you’ve seen me again. I say this honestly, with a view to doing my best for you. Bring me your case when you’ve worked it out, and I’ll tell you what to do.” “Many thanks, old fellow! I’m off to Hampshire to-night. I shall be back the day after to-morrow, though perhaps late. It will be all decided then. I’m playing for a good deal bigger stake than you, Silky—the girl I love and something to start housekeeping on.” “Ah,” returned Dallison, “I like that; if you’ve got the first stake on, you’re playing in earnest. I am still all in the dark; but if you see your way to winning the first, I’ll bet you two to one, knowing nothing about it, I win enough for you to start housekeeuing on.”

That very night, just as they wer* medI (fating bed, a loud ring startled the deni- ! zens of Glinn. The advent of Grenville Rose seemed to the servants a matte.’ of course thing. They immediately commenced preparation of. his usual room. His uncle also was glad to see him, but to Mrs. Denison and Maude the thing was past comprehension. As for Grenville, he seemed perfectly callous—shobk hands with his aunt, audaciously kissed his cousin, accompanying it by a pressure ot the hand and a whisper, the combination of which sent the bloqd to the very roots of Maude's hair. Then he devotes himself in a most prosaic manner to some cold boiled beef and pickles, pertinaciously sat the ladies out, and as he handed them their candles, whispered to Maude: “Hope for us yet, darling!” “Now, uncle,” he said, “I want you to come with me to your study. You recollect that old box of deeds and papers you let me rummage through two years back, when I went so deep into heraldry, and spent a good bit of time tracing the family genealogy?” “Yes, my boy; but you don’t mean to* say you've come down upon us like a whirlwind in this way to continue that somewhat vexatious pursuit?” Grenville said no more till he was duly ensconced in the squire’s sanctum, with the box containing those musty papers open by his side. “Now, uncle,” he resumed, “I shall probably have to work for two or three* hours through these old parchments before I arrive at the one I want. Os course I dbn’t expect you to remain while I do so, but before you go to bed would you mind answering me two or three questions? You’ve always been very kind to me; Glinn, indeed, has been my home almost as long ot I can recollect. My father and mother died when I was so young, that you and my aunt have almost stood in their place to me.” “Well, Gren, we’ve always been fond of you, nad glad to have you here. But what are you driving at?" , . “Will you bear with me patiently tonight, even if I offend you? Will you wait' till to-morrow, and hear then what I have to say before you decide about what I shall, perhaps, ask you to do for me?” “What on. earth are you making mysteries about? Not much use asking help from me. Gren; I’m about broke myself. You’re in some money scrape, I suppose?” Most of the squire's own scrapes having arisen from that prolific source, he naturally guessed his nephew must have involved himself similarly. “No, uncle, it’s not that. I love Maude, and want to marry her.” No words can paint Harold Denison’s face at this last announcement. That there should be love-passages between Grenville and his daughter had never en tered his head; and what could the young idiot mean by coming and telling him so now? - He must know she was engaged to Pearman. “Do you?” he said at length, in bis most cynical manner. “That’s a little unlucky, because she’s about to marry somebody else. I fancied that you must have heard so.’ “You mean Pearman? Yes, I have heard 1 that.” “Oh, you have? May I ask what particular inducements you-have to offer, that you think it probable Maude will break off the prospect of a good match in your behalf? You may have achieved some unexampled B success in your profession; I can only regret that I am as yet. in ignorance of it.” “You only sneer at me, and I am talking in earnest,” said Grenville, biting his lips. (To be continued.) DREW SHIP TO ITS’ DOOM. Steel Steamship Wrecked on Magnetic Shore of hapland. . That theseacoast’s magnetic influence drew his stout ship to its rugged ironribbed shore is the explanation of Capt Keldie of the wrecking of the British steamer Sandal, which was lost on the coast in question, and has made an affidavit embodying the foregoing statement. The affidavit Is on file with the Board of Trade in England, says the New York Evening Mail. - Not only does the commander of the Sandal attribute the loss of his vessel wholly to the magnetic influence of Lapland, but Joseph NCwmarch, first mate of the wrecked vessel, swears to a knowledge, gained by many yea-rs’ experience in that region, of the magnet-like qualities of the coast which holds the bones of the Sandal. Loaded with timber, which she took aboard at Archangel, in the White Sea, Russia, the Sandal was bound to the Tyne River, England. Capt. Keldie said: “I am convinced that nothing could have saved the Sandal. The particular part of Lapland where she struck I have since found composed of iron and other powerful magnetic ores, and I am equally positive that the magnetic attraction disturbed our compasses and drew us steadily landward. The weather was hazy at the time.” Mate Newmarch said that for an hour before the ship struck It was impossible to keep her on her course; that her head kept yawning in the direction of the land, and that, in his opinion, the stranding was caused b£ the attraction of the land. Controlled, by Combine. There is a trust in fuller’s earth, with the final process known only to one or two persons, whose lips are rigidly sealed. The deposits of fuller’s earth exist chiefly at Bath and Nottinghamshire, England, and at Maxton, in Scotland, in addition to deposits in the London district. The industry is practically controlled by a .combine which strictly preserves the methods bf preparation of the earth. 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BHSSJ] 320 FMacres of Wheat Land ill Western Canada WILL MAKE YOU RICH .50 bushels per acre have been?grown. General ■' qragq greater than in any other part of the Conti. tent. Under New Regulations it i< possible to sc urea Homestead of 100 acres free, and additional If ’ a.ises at $3.00 per acre. “The development of the country has made marvellous strides. It is a revelation, a record of conquest by settlement that is remarkable.”—Extract from correspondence of a National Editor, who visited Canada in August last. The grain crop of 19Q8 will n t many farmers $ 1,00 to $25.00 per acre. Grain-raising, Mixed I mining and Dairying are the principal indust'ies. Climgte is excellent; Social Conditions the 1 sc; Railway Advantages unequalled; SchoqlS, < . in ches and markets close at hand. Lands may also be purchased from Railway I nd Land Companies. I’OR "LAST BEST VVHST” unphlets. maps and information as ta ' »r to, secure lowest Railway Rates, apply to V. D. Scott, Superintendent of Immigration, t'.iwa, Canada, or W. H. Rogers, .td Floor * i'ruction-Terminal Building,.lndianapolis, Ind., ind H. M. Williams, Room ao, Law, Building, Toledo, Ohio, Authorized Government Agents. Ikleaee w where you saw thia advertisement. 'IIfYIPA —Best agricultural and lI.AIUU timber land in Republic. Price • 3.00 per acre. Address Henry Benham, • Ti co. Texas. IRR SAI F 80 acre farm, Manistee 11 11 CALL Co., Mich., near school and ailrbad. Abundance o# potatoes, fruit ind small grain. L. E. Wingert. 1524 •i rry St,, Chicago. 111.